Do you have to pay first and last? What’s the difference between a condo and an apartment? What is a bachelor apt? Renting an apartment is not easy! Discover the vocabulary needed to find a place to live!

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Test your understanding of the English lesson by answering these questions. You will get the answers and your score at the end of the quiz.

Roomshare is commonly used in North America.

truefalse

Apartment and condo mean the same thing.

truefalse

In North America, most landlords require "first and last".

truefalse

What is "first and last"?

The name of your first landlord and your last landlord.Your first-born child and your last bottle of beer.The date you want to move in and want to move out.The rent money for the first month and last month you will be in the apartment.

A bachelor apartment is for single men only.

truefalse

Condo is short for:

condomcondo apartmentapartmentcondominiumexpensivea big apartment

The difference between condos and apartments is:

nothingCondos are newer.Condos are more expensive.Apartments have cockroaches and rats.Condos are bought; apartments are rented.

Hey Ronnie , i was trying to find a lesson for know how to “negociate“ the rent price.. Do you understand what i am trying to tell? So i was thinking in say for example.. “Originally my idea was to stay here for more than six months.. so i was just wondering if you could make the rent price for two hundred“ .. Is this acceptable? Could the people understand? Thanks in advance

Sunday, October 14th 2012

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I understand what you mean but unfortunately, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to bargain with a landlord! Try though, you might get lucky!

Hi Ronnie, i would like you to make a video about mechanical equipment, tools and motor slang, I will work for a mining company so I need it so much, and it will very useful for a lot of people, specially engineers. Thanks for your help

Hello Ronnie. How are you doing? I hope, very nice. I just coming by to let you know that I love your lessons. It is very helpful. I like this, because I don’t get bored, in fact I laugh with you, and I learn quite much. Bye for now, thanks a lot.

HI again Ronnie sorry but i have another question please Ronnie if i wanna know if my English is good or not what can i do ? i mean is there any kind of exams that i should do …i feel my English i can say very good but i want to be sure thank u again

Dear Madam,Namaste I’m from Nepal
i usually watch this program to learn, speak and write for my personal English language development. we can watch an intermediate level course step by step and if there is any more website like this please help me with giving new programmer. in the, anyway i want to give you the great thanks just for you.

I am Sona Sharma from India.I have been a member of this educational site for more than one year.I wanna get my basic concept about English tenses cleared by you.After reading newspaper,watching movies,chatting with people online, I have figured out that an action word known as verb is the most important word in English that I need to know to express an action.Imagine,I feel thirsty.I need to have some water to quench my thirst.Then I perform an action called “drinking”.If I am not familiar with this word ,I can’t express what I want.People simply use this action word in different tenses to refer to different point of time like I drank a glass of water after returning from work yesterday as my throat had dried up.In my previous sentence ,I have used it in the past tense to express that I am not thirsty now but I was..
I am just a begginer.plz help me to learn this language well and also check out my sentences

Hello Ronnie..
If you remember,I had requested you to do a lesson for me on clauses but I guess its still not done. This is just a kind request because I need to learn this topic..so please help me ma’am as you are the ONLY one that can make me understand it..

Thursday, October 18th 2012

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I haven’t done any new videos yet but I will! What kind of clauses do you need help with???

Dear Ronnie
I will be very grateful if you make a lesson for Airport & airplane vocabularies and expressions such like “check-in desk, duty free, boarding card, departure board, etc.” Moreover the traveling word that we need to know whether you’re traveling by plane, bus, train, yacht, metro,etc. :)

hi sweet Ronnie..wish everyting is going well with u,i really like ur teachng way speacially its presented with a sence of humor,my qustion is how can i differentiate between simple past and present pefect?for instance when i say i saw and when i say i ve’ seen? my best regards to u.

Really useful vocabulary! If sometime I might rent a house I would use the right words! Do you know Ronnie? The word “condo(minium)” is a “false friend” of the word “condominio” in Italian. We use it to indicate a sum of money we pay every month for lights, lift, cleaning up…. of the block of flats we live in. Thanks for your help!

Tuesday, October 23rd 2012

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That’s good to know! Small correction: condominium and condominio are actually cognates, not false friends—they both come from the Latin condominium. A lot of English words come from Latin, so there are many Italian-English cognates, like insalata / salad or teatro / theatre.

Hi teachers I would like a video about contability vocabulary and other video about examples to send an e-mail for example asking for information or sending files attachment, etc. Thank you very much!!

thanks a lot Ronnie; please tell me steps to speak English fluently because English not may native language,and i ask also if i can depend only on this site to learn or need help from direct teacher ( face to face ) sorry for my bad language.

Thank you for your efforts to help people like me to learn right English.

I did listen to -ION lesson. I have a concern, I think -tion and -ssion are pronounced -shin not -ion because if only -ion you have to leave the t in the original word and to remove only -ion and replace by -shin.In action for example, it would be actshin while the right is acshin. Can you please comment on that.

I think you have the secret to really learn real english and everything you said is meaningful. You are the best canadian teacher for me. I’ve learned much faster after I found your videos. Thank you for that great job.

Ronnie , among other english teachers that i have studied with , you are the best . your way in teaching is so fun, funny and clear to be understood . i wish i have a teacher like you when i was at school. Now i am adults already and i just think my english could have been better if i had a teacher like you. Goodluck Ronnie and GHod God bless

Hi Ronnie! I come from Rome and I’m one of your followers :) you’re really great! I’m writing to you because I ‘ve a doubt and I would like to make it clear but it hasn’t nothing to do with the above lesson.
what does the expression “big deal” mean? I tried to get it on my own but I think that it has more than one meaning,hasn’t it? I look forward to hearing from you!
best wishes
Isabella.

Thanks for the lesson….i heard people saying =i will goto work tommorow by 9pm= i,m so confused every time i hear this…my questions is, by the way i think,i think it should be =i will goto work tommorrow AT 9pmi,m not sure though if i,m right

i have a little prob on the usage of ”where”..i know how to use it with all other ways besides this rule please help me..
I wanna know how to use ”where” with these words and what the grammar rule is..pls give me a few examples of your own ones..

1 Due to the volume of emails we receive we are unable to respond to the emails where the answer can be found on our web site itself

2 If you have gone to a website where you have to create an account for yourself..

3 This procedure should be followed in cases where dishonesty has been alleged.

4 I heard a strange noise from the upstairs where the children were playing.

Hi Ronnie~I`m Bachelor~(:D)
in my country,recently “one room” are a lot of built.(one room is one bedroom descripted in this lesson.)
I want renting one room.
but I have not enough momey .ㅜ(Why!Why!that is just one room!!!)
Thank you for your information of america renting room.

I’m 9 out of 10 …Roonie i have some doubt in this.what is difference between HOUSE AND HOME..
I ask my indian teacher he said if u get married and stayed with children-we call it as home..
house without married ..It can asked “how many houses are there in that street..”..could please help with this…Thanks for this lesson..

Hi Ronnie, I’m an italian realtor, so I enjoyed this lesson very much! I speak english with my foreign clients and it would be great for me if I could improve my “technical” vocabulary (speaking of heating, kind of rooms, furniture etc). In my job I translate from italian to english, but I don’t know how natives talk about apartments and renting apartments. I know that it’s a very specific request, and probably I’m the only one interested on it….. lol
Thanks for your time, I LOVE the way you teach! (and please forgive my mistakes…)

Ronnie Hello from this weird land that I am sometimes thinking that is not my birdland because I miss so much Canada and I don´t know why lol…Passing to the specific point here thanks for give us these handy advice, I was wrong in several question of the quiz but no matter in exaggeration I always I am learning (I believe) from my mistakes…I thought that in America,well speaking about North America people was using more the room shares indeed that there is so many “aliens”(ET lol)Well I could understand that still there is spaces for living with more air..lol..I was in grateful to discover that new word compound word Land-lord that have differents acceptations too and it’s in the metaphysic plane if you want…I had understood from other lessons (I don´t know which the teacher was ) that Bachelor was only to men,single men..And the last question how people say in my Colombian land…it’s a foolish question,always there´s one of them in the exams A big kiss you obviously are the best Master ever(If I can point this word)

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